DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed William Lewis Reece death penalty conviction for a 1997 murder on.

The U.S. Supreme Court has at times spared prisoners with dementia from execution, including an Alabama man in 2019 who had ...

Prison experts discuss how Bryan Kohberger's admission to the Idaho student murders might make him vulnerable in prison, where inmates serving life sentences have nothing to lose.

Time and again, mass murderers plead for life without parole to avoid execution. Without the threat of the death penalty, ...

The catastrophe was caused by a perfect storm of difficult-to-forecast rainfall and fast-moving water. Some wonder if budget ...

Blair, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were found dead with their 'hands locked together' after the catastrophic Guadalupe River ...

Floods which hit the US state of Texas on Friday have killed at least 104 people - including 28 children. Dozens are still ...

It's not the only string of cases in recent years tethered by DNA matches. The DNA from a man serving a sentence in a ...